The Standard’s Success.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 300, 18 May 1889, Page 2

The Standard’s Success.

The Melbourne Evening Standard, a new journal published under the editorship of Mr G. M. Reed, made its first appearance on April 20. It is an excellent eight page paper. From a private letter received from Mr Reed the following extract is made :— “ You will be glad to hearthat at last we have got into motion, and under the most favorable auspices surely under which psper ever started. You could hard y irn gine the interest our venture has excited. Yesterday the first issue was us wild a scene as ever! witnesse 1 in journalism : barriers broken down, windows forced in and smashed, and clothes literally torn off some of the struggling mass in want of papers. Our little Foster worked like a watch, turning off its 10,000 an hour for four hours as steadily as if it had been at it for years. They were all sold bsfore the evening was through, and we had to roll off some more this morning for exchanges, as-we had not a paper left. Our circulation this evening was the same, but It was measured only by the c ipaoity of the machine, for had we been able to supply the demand we could have circulated at least 70,000 easier than 40. Oureecond machine has arrived and will be working next week. We I have received congratulations from every I quarter, and are met everywhere with assurances of success. Ae you will see. Hie „ Excellency the Acting Governor was present at our starting the machine, and a very brilliant assemblage of all the big-wigs of Violoria, for our share-list contains everybody that ia anybody la Melbourne. In fact, the whole affair has been attended to with an eclat that bewildered and awed me, after the stillness of life in Auckland, Pity only that our two machines were hot at work. If they had been we would have started with a circulation I believe of 80,009. Everything is done here by soc eties and unions, and we have them all with us. The Association of News Agents have adopted us, in a manner, as their own, aa it was the necessity of fulfilling their orders first that maddened the crowd yesterday. However, wc wfire better prepared to day, but it will ba a terrible strain till we get the second machine at work. Aa to the success of the Standard there is not a shadow of doob’. They have provided me with a magnificent staff, mauy of them able and beautiful writers, and whau we get fairly stretched to our work I think we will turn out something to please. We had hardly a hitch in the whole of the starting, our only embarrassment being that we were overwhelmed with

copy, aud could have filled threa pspere. This delayed our first getting off, but wo have balanced our strength bettor since,"